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John Newcombe vs Toshiro Sakai Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

John Newcombe seasons:19811980197919781977
Toshiro Sakai seasons:19851975197419731972
🇦🇺 John Newcombe
🇯🇵 Toshiro Sakai
Age: 82y 3d (1944-05-23)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1947-11-23) Age: 78y 184d
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
1 - 1
Wins: 50.0% - 50.0%
Hard 0–0Clay 0–1Grass 1–0
Davis Cup 1–1
LW
WL

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🇦🇺John Newcombe and 🇯🇵Toshiro Sakai have met 2 times. The series is tied 1–1.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇦🇺John Newcombe has compiled an overall career record of 568–227 across 795 matches, translating to a win rate of 71.45%. On hard courts his record stands at 149–53 (73.76%), while on clay he holds a 134–57 (70.16%) mark. On grass the numbers read 164–45 (78.47%) , and on carpet 121–72 (62.69%). Throughout his career he has won 41 titles (16 hard, 7 clay, 7 grass, 11 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 20–30 (40.00%).

🇯🇵Toshiro Sakai, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 50–58 from 108 matches (46.30% win rate). His hard-court record is 4–3 (57.14%), on clay he stands at 22–28 (44.00%), and on grass he has gone 14–18 (43.75%) , with a carpet record of 0–1 (0.00%). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 0–3 (0.00%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 1–0 (100.00% for Toshiro Sakai) across 1 matches. On grass, their 1 encounter has yielded a record of 1–0 (100.00% for John Newcombe).

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1975-01-10Davis Cup AME SF: AUS vs JPNGrassRR2🇦🇺John Newcombe178🇯🇵Toshiro Sakai6-4 6-3 6-35------0/0
1973-04-20Davis Cup AME SF: JPN vs AUSClayRR-🇯🇵Toshiro Sakai-🇦🇺John Newcombe8-6 6-4 4-6 0-6 6-35------0/0

Wins

John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai
1–1Overall
1–1Davis Cup
0–1Clay
1–0Grass

Sets Format

0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo3
50.0%1
50.0%1
Bo5
0.0%0
0.0%0
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%1
5 Sets
John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

Deciding

0.0%0
100.0%1
Decider Set
0.0%0
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

Sets

62.5%5
37.5%3
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
100.0%3
0.0%0
Grass
40.0%2
60.0%3
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

Games

55.8%43
44.2%34
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
64.3%18
35.7%10
Grass
51.0%25
49.0%24
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

Overview

By Surface

John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

By Tournament Level

John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

By Round

John Newcombe
Toshiro Sakai

By Opponent Ranking

John NewcombeToshiro Sakai
40%2-3
vs Top 1
—
27.3%6-16
vs Top 5
0%0-1
40%20-30
vs Top 10
0%0-3
41.7%35-49
vs Top 20
0%0-3
65%156-84
vs Top 100
38.9%7-11
91.4%53-5
vs +100
60%6-4
32.8%19-39
vs Higher
40.9%9-13
79.2%190-50
vs Lower
66.7%4-2

Opponent Breakdown

John NewcombeToshiro Sakai
74.3%309-107
Vs Younger
45%18-22
66.1%234-120
Vs Older
37.3%19-32
73%463-171
Vs Right-Handed
40%34-51
63.2%96-56
Vs Left-Handed
44.4%4-5
45.5%5-6
Vs 2H Backhand
0%0-1
59.4%41-28
Vs 1H Backhand
50%2-2
58.5%120-85
Vs Shorter
—
68.7%160-73
Vs Taller
—

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